Episode 1: Hwaseong Serial Murders

Dark Korea — Korean True Crime & Mysteries · Jul 11, 2026 · 7m

For over thirty years, this was the case that defined "unsolved" in South Korea. Ten women, murdered in the same quiet farming region, over the course of five years. A police effort so massive it's still one of the largest manhunts in the country's history — more than a million officers deployed, tens of thousands of suspects checked, and still, nothing. The killer walked free so long that the law itself changed because of him. And then, in 2019, a single DNA match — from a man already sitting in prison for something else entirely — cracked the whole thing open. This is the story of the…